 infobox country native_name kingdom of furyondy common_name furyondy image_coat coat_furyondy gif image_map capital chendl major_cities baranford caronis crockport free borough gorsend grabford greatwall kisail libernen littleberg pantarn redoubt willip provinces eight major provinces ruled by hereditary nobility resources foodstuffs cloth gold wines fish shipbuilding supplies languages common ferrond velondi elven halfling government_type feudal monarchy hereditary kingship limited by noble council leader_title king leader_name belvor iv citizen furyondian population 1 378 000 demographics human human osbf elf elf sylvan halfling elf elf high dwarf gnome elf half-elf orc half-orc demographic_numbers 1 088 600 74 400 68 900 49 600 41 300 27 500 13 800 13 800 religions heironeous rao st cuthbert zilchus trithereon fharlanghn beory alignment lg ng ln platinum paladin gold wheat-sheaf electrum knight silver sheridan copper common allies veluna shield lands highfolk ulek ulek states verbobonc dyvers knights of the hart enemies iuz human rhennee distrusted horned society footnotes culture culture culture a bastion of good in the heartlands of the flanaess furyondy leads the charge in fighting off the forces of evil driving back the forces of iuz country iuz and the horned society its people tend to reflect this position with its populace generally being quick to defend that they see as an injustice though occasionally with a lack of foresight along these lines and contrary to what such close proximity of less well-meaning countries the populace of furyondy has little fear of the possibility of invasion trusting in the military of belvor iv king belvor to defend them from outside threats geography geography geography modern furyondy spans the land between the velverdyva and veng river rivers from the nyr dyv in the south to the southern shore of lake whyestil in the north though it does border the vesve forest it claims only a small part of those woods given furyondy furyondy's central position travel through it is both common and necessary; as a result furyondy boasts one of the best road systems in the flanaess one said to be matched only by the  dirawein  of the great kingdom the two great lakes that border furyondy help to moderate its weather throughout most of the year rain is more common in the north than the south and though winter tends to bring much snow it is not particularly harsh military military military furyondy boasts one of the most impressive standing armies in the flanaess augmented by mercenaries and adventures from distant lands the full force of infantry and cavalry stand at about twenty thousand soldiers with roughly the same number of warriors provided by local lords the furyondian royal navy based in willip patrols the nyr dyv keeping the coasts mostly free of pirates and dangerous monsters the willip arsenal the home part of the royal navy is the largest dockyard in the flanaess capable of handling upwards of 3 dozen galleasses simultaneously while drydocking a further dozen history history history the realm today known as furyondy begun life as a number of small states scattered about the central lands of the flanaess they were annexed by the great kingdom for the purpose of giving aerdy a strong satrapy on the western frontier giving them a point from which to conquer further lands these small realms were merged c 100 cy into the viceroyalty of ferrond one of four viceroyalties of the kingdom of aerdy it became the largest of the four consisting of modern-day furyondy then known as furyon and veluna voll highfolk the shield lands the quaglands today known as perrenland and the hilly regions northeast of the vesve forest then known as the northern reaches the viceroy ruled from the capital of dyvers and was attended by scores of noble oeridian families emigrated from the great kingdom ; even an ennobled flan ferrond followed the feudalistic model used by aerdy to great benefit bringing in considerable profit to the coffers of rauxes though making life fairly difficult for the majority of ferrondians as the great kingdom fell more and more into corruption the nobles of ferrond withheld more and more of their tithes ruling by their own writ more than the commands of the distant overking the death of stinvri viceroy stinvri in 254 cy signaled a change in ferrondian politics they refused to bow any further to the dangerous incompetence of rauxes instead installing stinvri 's heir as thrommel i king of furyondy and though the coronation led to much celebration in dyvers it resulted in considerable anguish for aerdy half-hearted skirmishes in the lands north of the nyr dyv exploded into conflict bordering on all-out war however any chance of of aerdy checking the ferrondian movement was dashed if not through their own military incompetence then through the sudden unrest amongst the northern barbarians drawing their attention away from the seceding lands and though it took the court of essences more than a century to acknowledge furyondy furyondy's independence after 260 cy they suffered no serious opposition to their withdrawl their new-found state however led to a quicly growing sense of pride culminating in a brief expansionist phase that ended up seeing the annexation of bissel from keoland in 438 cy this phase was cut short however with the secession of voll later veluna in 448 cy as well as the strength of keoland to the south these events were a splash of water to the face of furyondy and the nation settled down granting bissel its own independence a mere 39 years after it was taken things were not to remain calm for long however for the year 479 cy saw the coming of one of the most dangerous forces of evil the flanaess has ever known iuz god iuz originally claiming to be the heir of a minor furyondian noble upon that noble noble's death he recieved his entire holdings holdings which he proceeded to use as a base to strike out from within the year the three neighboring fiefdoms were captured and by 500 cy he had taken land as far as the walled city of molag in the following years his true nature quickly showed itself and much of the northern reaches was lost to iuz god iuz furyondy furyondy's preoccupations were shifted from internal politics and foreign treaties to this demon-spawned tyrant rampaging across the land unchecked and though avras king avras and his northern margraves entreated their southern kinsmen for aid they recieved none in 505 cy however as quickly as he had appeared iuz god iuz vanished with iuz god iuz 's men lost at least for the time being without their leader furyondy quickly retook those lands captured from them and took on the position of defending the heartlands of the flanaess from further strikes the current ruler of furyondy belvor iv king belvor iv took the throne in 537 cy and he has so far been a most noble and just king bringing his nation into an even tighter allegiance with veluna he has ceasely warred with the horned society and the lands of iuz even lending contingents to expeditions into the bandit kingdoms his actions have allowed furyondy to hold the reputation it has well earned over the last 70 years while continuing to be the first line of defense against the forces of evil 